To complement their manufacturing and modification work, they also recommend and make available to their customers a hand-picked selection of products made by other manufacturers which they feel work exceptionally well. Origin Live also has a well-deserved reputation for modifying and hot-rodding competing turntables like the Linn LP12 and tone arms (Rega) to substantially improve stock performance. These days, Origin Live manufactures their own line of high performance turntables, tonearms, power supplies and various accessories that are offered through dealers and their own website. Mark then added isolation tables, speaker stands and turntables to his lineup and eventually a range of loudspeakers he designed. Located in the UK at Southampton, Mark Baker founded Origin Live in 1986 to make speaker and interconnect cables. In case you're not familiar with Origin Live, let me give you a little background before I do the deep dive on the Silver MkII tone arm.
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Review component retail: Origin Live Silver MkII tonearm £599 (Export £509.79/$960), update of MkI to MkII status £150/$282 Room size: Room 1 - 20' L x 17' W x 17' H Room 2 - 11' L x 11'W x 9' H Stands: McKinnon Bellevue Symphony walnut media cabinet, Atlantis Video Reference equipment rack, Skylan amplifier stands Speakers: Avantgarde Duo 2.1, Omega Super 3 (with matching Skylan Stands) Omega Super 3 XRS ASA Monitor Baby Ĭables: 47 Laboratory OTA Cable Kit Nirvana S-L & S-X interconnects, S-L speaker cables, Duo wiring harness, and Transmission Digital Interface Cardas Neutral Reference digital cable, Auditorium 23 speaker cable Tom Evans Audio Design interconnects. Integrated amplifiers: Leben CS600 Almarro A205A Mk1 & Mk2 Īmplifiers: Fi 2A3 monoblocks Tom Evans Audio Design Linear A Preamplifiers: Tom Evans Audio Design Lithos 7 Vibe with Pulse power supply Vinyl: Garrard 301, Cain & Cain plinth, Denon 103 MC cartridge, Pete Riggle Audio VTAF, Fi Yph phono stage, Auditorium 23 moving coil step-up transformer, Origin Live Silver MkI & MkII tone arms, SME 3012 tone arm, Paschetto Empire 208 turntable ĭigital sources: Meridian 508.20 CD player, Audio Logic 2400 DAC, Red Wine Audio Olive Musica This review page is supported in part by the sponsor whose ad is displayed above